Faculty

Alexander Gusev

alexander_gusev@dfci.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Medicine

We are quantitative geneticists working on methods to understand complex disease. Our research focuses on deciphering biological mechanisms and trait biology from genome-wide association studies; germline influences of cancer and response to therapy; and...

Steven P. Gygi

steven_gygi@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Cell Biology

Technology drives biological research. A new technology can instantly provide answers that were difficult or impossible to address using current approaches. The emerging field of proteomics provides researchers an alternative/complementary strategy to the...

Nir Hacohen

nhacohen@mgh.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine

The Hacohen lab consists of immunologists, geneticists, biochemists, technologists, physicians and computational biologists working together to develop new and unbiased technologies and strategies to understand basic immune processes and immune-mediated...

Kevin M. Haigis

kevin_haigis@dfci.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine

Our laboratory studies diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, with emphasis on colorectal cancer (CRC) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We use both conventional and systems biology approaches to integrate studies of genetically engineered mouse...

Joel Naom Hirschhorn

joel.hirschhorn@childrens.harvard.edu

Concordia Professor of Pediatrics

There are clear resemblances between parents and children for height, weight, and many other traits and diseases; these familial resemblances are influenced strongly by inherited genetic factors. Most common diseases (such as diabetes, obesity, or asthma)...

Hailiang Huang

hhuang@atgu.mgh.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor

The Huang Lab develops and applies cutting-edge statistical genetics and computational techniques to understand the genetic architecture of human complex disorders, especially autoimmune and psychiatric disorders. We are especially interested in novel...

Rafael A Irizarry

rafa@jimmy.harvard.edu

Professor of Biostatistics

Rafael Irizarry received his Bachelor's in Mathematics in 1993 from the University of Puerto Rico and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1998 from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis work was on Statistical Models for Music Sound...

Konrad Karczewski

konradk@broadinstitute.org

Assistant Professor

I am a computational biologist working on interpreting genetic variation from large-scale datasets. As exome and genome data grow to massive scales, the methods and analytical frameworks need to scale at the same rate, and interpreting results from large...

Isaac Samuel Kohane

isaac_kohane@harvard.edu

AIM Program Director

Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics

Why is it easier to find out what experience shoppers worldwide have had with the latest digital camera than it is to determine what adverse events patients have had with a particular drug? Why are blood tests and X-rays repeated needlessly? Why can one...

Ilya Korsunsky

ikorsunsky@bwh.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Medicine

I am principal investigator of the Korsunsky lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. I completed my PhD with Dr. Bud Mishra at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I started my postdoctoral training in rheumatology with Dr. Peter Gregersen at...

Aleksandar Kostic

Aleksandar.Kostic@joslin.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

My lab studies the interplay between the gut microbiome and the immune system and how their “miscues” can lead to autoimmune diseases, particularly type 1 diabetes. As a 2013 BBS grad, I understand what it takes to have a successful Ph.D. experience. The...

Eric Steven Lander

lander@broadinstitute.org

Professor of Systems Biology

A geneticist, molecular biologist and mathematician, Eric Lander is the Founding Director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, as well as a professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Professor of Biology at MIT. He pioneered the...